Selected Publications

Journal Articles          

Lentz, B. (November 8, 2016). Funding policy advocacy: An interview with the founder and director of the Media Democracy Fund. In Working for Internet Freedoms: Network Neutrality and the Labors of Policy Advocacy in the U.S. [Special Section]. International Journal of Communication, Vol 10: 5811-5826.

Couture, S., King, G., Toupin, S., Lentz, B. (Jan/Feb 2016). Can Media and Technology Help Make “Another World Possible”? Reflections from the Media@McGill Research Delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum in Tunisia [Research-in-Brief]. Canadian Journal of Communication, 41(1).

Lentz, B. and Kirkpatrick, B. (2014, September 15). [Feature]. Wanted: Public interest mavericks at the FCC. International Journal of Communication, Volume 8: 2503–2518.

Lentz, B. (2014, June 3). The media policy tower of babble: A case for policy literacy pedagogy. [Invited think piece for Special Issue: The Future of Internet Policy]. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 31(2), 134-140. doi:10.1080/15295036.2014.921318

Lentz, B. (2014, May). Building the pipeline of media and technology policy advocates: The role of situated learning. [Special Issue: Media Advocacy Labor]. Journal of Information Policy, 4, 176-204. doi:10.5471/jip.v4i0.167

Lentz, B. (2013, November 15). Excavating historicity in the U.S. network neutrality debate: An interpretive perspective on policy change. [Special Issue: Policy, Politics, and Discourse]. Communication, Culture & Critique, 6(4), 568–597. doi:10.1111/cccr.12033

Lentz, R.G. and Oden, M. (2001). Digital divide or digital opportunity in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. Telecommunications Policy, 25(5), 291–313. doi:10.1016/S0308-5961(01)00006-4

Lentz, R.G. (2000, August). The e-volution of the digital divide in the U.S: A mayhem of competing metrics. Info, 2(4), 355-377. doi:10.1108/14636690010801609


Special Journal Issues/Sections

Lentz, B., & Perlman, A. (Eds.) (November 8, 2016). Working for Internet Freedoms: Network Neutrality and the Labors of Policy Advocacy in the U.S. [Special Section]. International Journal of Communication, Volume 10, 211 pages.

Lentz, B., & Shade, L.R. (Eds.) (2011). Democratizing communication policy in the Americas: Why it matters. [Special Issue]. The Canadian Journal of Communication, 36(1), 199 pages.

Mueller, M., & Lentz, B. (Eds.) (2004). Social determinants of public policy in the information age. [Special Issue]. The Information Society Journal, 20(3): 155-238.


Books

​Straubhaar, J., Spence, J, Tufekci, Z, & Lentz, R.G. (Eds.) (March 15, 2012). Inequity in the technopolis: Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press: 284 pages.


Book Chapters

Lentz, B. (June 2016). Media Policy Literacy - A Foundation for Media Reform. In D. Freedman, J. Obar, C. Martens and R. McChesney (Eds.), Strategies for media reform: International perspectives. New York, NY: Fordham University Press Everett C. Parker Book Series.

Lentz, B. (October 19, 2015). Media Policy Literacy. In P. Decherney and V. Picard (Eds.), The History and Future of Internet Policy. London: Routledge. (Reprinted from Critical Studies in Media Communication, 31(2), pp. 134-140, by Becky Lentz, 2014.)

Lentz, B. (2011). Civil society in the digital age. In M. Edwards (Ed.), Oxford handbook on civil society (337-348). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Lentz, B. (2011). Regulation as linguistic engineering. In R. Mansell and M. Raboy (Eds.), The handbook of global media and communication policy (432-448). Oxford, England: Wiley-Blackwell.


Book Reviews

Lentz, B. (2015). Book review: Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left. New Media and Society, 17 (10), 1750-1752.

Lentz, B. (2014). Book review: Global governance and NGO participation: Shaping the information society in the United Nations. Global Media and Communication, 10 (2), 223-225. doi:10.1177/1742766514541021a


Encyclopedia Entries

Lentz, B. (2010, October). Media infrastructure policy and media activism. In J. D. Downing (Ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media (323-326). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.


Other Writings

Lentz, B. (2013, September 27). Beneath the glitz of digital Activism. [Web log]. Retrieved from http://inthetank.newamerica.net/blog/2013/09/beneath-glitz-digital-activism

Lentz, B. (2010, January 9). Does ‘deep packet inspection’ turn you on? FlowTV 11(5). Retrieved from http://flowtv.org/2010/01/does-deep-packet-inspection-turn-you-onbecky-l...

Lentz, B. (2010). Foreword. In M. Aslama and P. Napoli (Eds.), Communications research in action: Scholar-activist collaborations for a democratic public sphere (ix-xiv). New York, NY: Fordham University Press.

Lentz, B. (2009, October 30). Regulation is boring. FlowTV 11(1). Retrieved from http://flowtv.org/2009/10/regulation-is-boringbecky-lentz-mcgill-univers...

Lentz, R.G. (1998). Commentary: Corporations vs. communities: The evolution of wireless in the U.S. and the devolution of local control. Telecommunications Policy 22(10), 791-795. doi:10.1016/S0308-5961(98)00063-9

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